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Fratelli.

Prologo.

Erano fratelli. Non nel senso biologico della parola, ma nella dimensione più profonda, non immediatamente percepibile da agenti esterni, non intuibile con l’umano talento del comprendere qualcosa senza le sufficienti informazioni. Erano diversi ed uguali, ed alle volte, in intimità, era possibile vedere l’invisibile legame che li univa, come una corrente d’aria che lambiva i loro volti senza toccarli.

straid One was on a hospital bed, the other sitting on the side. They smiled wearily in turn, as to give the gearbox in a chassis run uphill, the pursuer and the hare playing its role to give to another to make sure you arrive at the finish. There was something special in the eyes of both, perhaps a conscious moment of non-repeatability. Like life. Or the life that goes away.

One was dying, the other was beside him, thinking ...

the meeting.

James was an introverted kid, skinny, chiaropallida complexion, the tendency to turn his eyes downward and the habit of clearing his throat when he had to say something, but not important. The parents had separated the year before, and lived with his mother, following her transfer to another town where they had other homes, other accents, other customs. It was a strange day of autumn wind but warm atmosphere that allowed to foresee the imminent arrival of harsh winter. James was heading to his first day in new school, new city, in the new life - with the school year already begun, the city well under way, and the life around him who ran without panting.

knocked on the door semitransparent class, causing an unbearable silence and the magnetization of all the hostile stares of the students sitting on benches. He waited for the consent of the teacher and went up, trying not to wallow in shame and discomfort of being looked at right angles to those eyes without color, without a healthy curiosity. The voice of the professor who chanted his name at the funeral audience was sandpaper, coarse, and James - at that moment - I hope to disappear. Or at least be ossidoridotto at the subatomic level. The redox through dowsing - on time - not the case, James was accompanied by the voice and abrasive to his desk. James sat down, looked at left and right, checking looks ashen, which gradually went out, and began to breathe.

"Hello.'m Alfredo Fourteen "

She had not noticed the presence at his desk. He had noticed that the benches were for two people. He turned his head toward the voice, and fell silent, leaving the lips parted for several millimeters. He was a kid like him, but he was ... different. He had dark skin, with some metallic sheen, a strange dress, two large and deep eyes. No hair. And he smiled.

Oh capers.

James knew exactly what was an android, even though he had never seen one. so far.

James tried to smile back at best. It was the first smile he had received since he was transferred to the new capital, and the smile that had produced a return had not revealed much. The microdubbio the roses triggering the uncontrolled response of the hand in his pocket in search of something, a pledge to leave the boy who had greeted the first, given his chronic misconduct with speech. He drew from his pocket a ball of steel, of those to build the geometric shapes. He thought that as a token of friendship initial robotics was really a disaster of irreverence, but had nothing in his pocket and could not pass the time. Alzò le sopracciglia due volte, e passò la pallina nelle mani - perfette - dell'altro, che prima lo guardò grato e incuriosito, e poi posizionò lo sguardo sulla pallina come se fosse il Koh-I-Noor . Il resto della lezione di quel giorno, per i due, passò senza importanza, tra le occhiatacce dei lugubri che lampeggiavano ad intermittenza.

L'amicizia.

Alfredo Quattordici venne a sapere parecchie cose su Giacomo e sul posto da dove veniva. Il padre di Giacomo era un Ingegnere che costruiva palazzi, e la mamma invece una Biomeccanica. Quando i suoi tornavano dal lavoro, la sera, litigavano fino all'ora di andare to bed. Or at least, in Giacomo Blathers heard them up at the touch of Morpheus. The situation dragged on for some time, the natural laziness and forced James to find a reason to stay, at least a few hours, blaring out of the house when returning from their jobs. And this reason was still to find, now that Mom and Dad had decided to follow two separate ways.

James also learned several things from Alfredo Fourteen. Her skin was a mixture of titanium, and the number after the name was an agreement imposed by law. Every twelve months, had to return - for a week - in a specialized center for Change, which was applied a procedure that adequate il suo corpo all'età anagrafica. Non mangiava, ma poteva apprendere. Era guardato malissimo dai suoi coetanei e generalmente osteggiato quasi apertamente (i movimenti per i diritti dei Pensanti sarebbero pienamente maturati solo cinquant'anni dopo), ma nessuno osava toccarlo per paura della sua forza e resistenza fisica. Era stato adottato dai suoi genitori perché non potevano avere figli, e legalmente inserito nella nuova famiglia tramite regolare richiesta all'Anonima Androidi.

Erano una strana coppia di ragazzini, che passavano molto tempo insieme, che alle volte non parlavano, e che venivano costantemente sbeffeggiati dalla comunità studentesca con vari epiteti, da 'Carne con Scatola' a 'gli RH Negativo'. Fourteen Alfredo was suffering a bit, 'but he did not see. James was suffering a bit ', but he could not hide it. Often saw them walking on the walk near the residential area of \u200b\u200bthe pond, playing to bounce the rocks as frogs or lying on the grass to let pass the time by describing dreams and hopes. Other times they took the Underground and went to the Old City, even in areas not strictly peaceful, James could rely on physical puissance Fourteen Alfredo, Alfredo, and fourteen on the silent wisdom of James.

And during one of these clandestine trips they discovered a well-kept park and a small gym, not clean and carpeted old photographs, inhabited by a Master, an old martial arts champion, who would become places to spend the time you finish a class.

Adolescence.

time flowed at the rate of changes and alterations trichological Alfredo Fourteen of James. Fourteen Alfredo was very good play in coordination and body movement, which tried to teach James. James was brought in literature and science, and he was available to reps for Alfredo Fourteen. They made a pact: one was to help the other overcome their difficulties and weaknesses in the area where the other demonstrated excellence and talent.

At the park, sunny days, Alfredo Fourteen James followed in his flights of fancy in its games and rhymes.

" What should I write? " asked Alfred Fourteen.

" not think about what you write, think about what want to write. " James retorted.

"I want to write silence and nature. .

"Excellent . You can dance the words, look for it until you move like a corps de ballet. .

" Let's see ... chase the silence and he runs away .
"Well . Nice phrase. What comes to mind to go with her? "
" I have to do away with the rhyme ... "
" Daaai. You must not do so unnaturally. If the rhyme is, let her, but if the wheels will not find it. .
" runs through the trees, the wind is lost .
" Good, but you can improve it ..
" How? .
" Try to describe less, and to hear more. What do you really mean? .
" walking among the trees and the quiet scares me, and at the same time ... is beautiful. .
" We're close. .
" chase the silence, lost in the wind
The time between the trees, walking slowly "
James smiled. "'ve seen. Did you write a rhyme. How did you come? "
" do not know. .
" why you wrote. It 's the rhyme that you tried, and not vice versa. .
Alfredo Fourteen smiled and hugged James with his eyes.

In the gym of the old standard, when it rained, Alfredo James followed in his Fourteen perfect representations of the movements that had copied watching the old master in his afternoon workout. James looked Alfredo Fourteen figures represent the same pensive and kidnapped Alfredo Fourteen assumed that when James sang his verses. Fourteen Alfredo sang the poetry of the body naturally, without stuttering or hesitation. Fourteen

Alfredo and James were paired: one proposed a series of movements of arms, legs and body in sequence, and the other tried to replicate them. Fourteen
Alfredo announced the sequence, which carried out immediately after.

" Guard left, bottom left roundhouse kick, punch left hook Right, Small left upright. .

Giacomo reproduced the sequence, waiting for signs of Alfredo Fourteen.
Alfredo Fourteen, in a low voice, began the comment.

"You have the wrong guard position, the legs should be slightly bent - as ready to spring shoot. The roundhouse kick was not enough ... Circular, you must first turn the foot and the opposite leg and then with the whole body, trying to turn the other leg impact in an area that is about four inches below the knee. You have performed the technique without arms movements of hip and shoulder, missing the target and, in the case of small upright left, you hit the area was much higher, then The technique has proven to be ineffective e. .. ".

Alfredo Fourteen stopped, he entered the Master.
Master came almost levitating on the floor, looked at James first, then Alfredo Fourteen, and between the good-natured and 'he said ironically, "And ' came the Master, the Master of Shinseikai. . "Height (perceived) of the two boys reached the level of the tatami, Mogi saluted the Master and began to layout the side where students usually study forms and movements. They both believed that the word spoken by the teacher was his name, among them - by which time - they called it.

Love Life James was full of successes. Alfredo Fourteen had clearly perceived the interest of James for a brunette dressed in black, which carefully avoided any possible look, instead devoting himself to receive and return drums look-see at the upper classes. Equally clearly unrestrained adoration he received, against James, by a less flashy girl with glasses in tow, unaware that James (or rather, pretending to ignore). This story of love and infatuation of one-way occupied by Alfredo Fourteen machine cycles for a long time, not to satisfy his curiosity or to arrive at a plausible explanation.

The social life of Alfred Fourteen was not full of successes. James perceived hostility and prejudice against Alfredo Fourteen, which clung like a visible aura, even when he was alone. The androids were seen - in essence - as a necessary evil, a representation of man when the man was not available. A substitute . James Alfred Fourteen had sincerely thought that the quality and sensitivity uncommon even in generally staff, and that their structural difference would never have jeopardized a friendship. Alfredo Fourteen more were subjected to ostracism, he had purchased with the bond strength and resistance to others' stupidity.

adulthood.

James became a Biomechanical, like her mother, and given the enormous demand for skilled personnel almost immediately found work in a multinational company that built parts and software for older men, working in the Department of Research and Development . Fourteen
Alfredo became a personal trainer, and managed to hook the vein of the famous actresses in OloTV, who regarded the union as the androids - ideal - between a bodyguard and an instructor with a special talent to strengthen the body and mind .
They could not meet every day, even if they worked in the same city, but had retained the old habit of composing sonnets to meet at the park (if the sun was shining) or the old, dusty, romantic and unforgettable gym to make suggestions and hear the inflections of the Master, always lively, but accompanied by a stick of untreated wood on which rested the fighting and experiences accumulated over the years. Around thirty-first
Change Alfredo Fourteen, in a sunny afternoon in the park, James began to invent and recite a sonnet about a chance encounter, a heartbeat and loss of appetite, and flowers given to happiness in the world want to scream. Alfredo Fourteen had never experienced similar feelings, but he knew that James was in love. She stopped, her large eyes staring open space in front of him, and began to tremble slightly. James, in turn, he knew that Alfredo Fourteen was crying. Joy.
a couple of changes after James and his partner had the good fortune of having a child, male. James had not the slightest doubt the name would have been that of his friend's life, not the number that his brother was still locked up in the ranks of nearly men. Little Alfred was not only the light of James and his wife, but also dell'androide that children could not have.

meetings in the small gym at the park and continued in three.

Later, especially during summer hot, Alfredo Fourteen began to show any abnormality. He could not speak correctly, suffered from stuttering, remained still and silent, more than his usual phlegm and inorganic.
" you should visit .."
" Dd-it-to whom? My project was abandoned-to-aaa ...." long pause "Ten years ago .."
"'ll try to see in a company, we do so for men through robotic components, we could have done something for the androids through organic parts." James tried to be brave, but his voice was shaky, with no knowledge nor belief, suspecting something serious.

Suspected James were confirmed by an expert: Alfredo Fourteen had reached a stage where any change could be fatal. Its shell could not be changed, and at the same time the housing was causing the degradation or loss of functionality higher. His investigations on the farm gave negative results: all funds for research and development were addressed in the replacement of organic parts with mechanical components, and not vice versa. Fourteen

Alfredo was dying.

Epilogue.
... all those years together, and the meaning of the word brother . James
sat, and could not stop smiling and crying. There was no need for this, to find out what a brother. No need to lose, to understand love, love, respect. He wanted to be him, an organic , on that bed, in his place. Fourteen
Alfredo parted lips, hard.
" Live ... loves me, brother .

He tried his hand of James, and handed him the object he had the keeper, robotics care, throughout the whole of his life: a small steel ball, the pledge of friendship that not even death can scratch .

[Special thanks to Isaac and Cyril for the inspiration :-)]